Tephrosia multifolia Rose

Cracca heydeana Rydberg, sp. nov
A perennial, suffruticose at the base; stems sulcate, finely villous; leaves 1-2 cm. long; stipules subulate, 3-5 cm. long; petiole 1-2 cm. long, as well as the rachis sulcate, densely villous; leaflets 21-29, oblong, subcoriaceous, rounded at both ends, 2-4 cm. long, 7-12 mm. wide, silky on both sides, rather densely so beneath; racemes several, terminal and from the upper axils, 1-2 dm. long, rather lax; flowers 2-4 at each node; bracts subulate, 8-10 mm. long; calyx silky, the tube 2.5 mm. long, the lobes subulate, acuminate, 3 mm. long; corolla apparently white or sulphur-yellow, 14-15 mm. long; banner oval, silky without; wings linearoblanceolate, with a rounded basal auricle; pod slightly upcurved, 5-6 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, densely short-villous, 6-9-seeded; seeds brown, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad.
Type collected at Cerro Rcdondo, Santa Rosa, Guatemala, October, 1893, HeyJe cV Lux (Don nell Smith's dist. no.) 6111 (herb. Columbia Univ.).
Distribution: Guatemala to Panama.

Cracca multifolia Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 270 1909.
Tephrosia multifolia Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 320. 1895.
A shrub, 1 m. high or more; stem angled, pilose with long spreading hairs; leaves 1.5 dm. long or more; stipules linear-subulate, caducous; petiole 2-3 cm. long; rachis sparingly pilose; leaflets 21-31, narrowly oblong, 3-5 cm. long, rounded at both ends or retuse at the apex, mucronate, green and strigose above, paler and loosely pilose beneath; racemes terminal and from the upper axils, 1-2 dm. long; bracts subulate; calyx pilose, the tube 2-2.5 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, acuminate, 4 mm. long; corolla purplish, 12-15 mm. long; banner orbicular; wings oblong-cblanceolate; stamens monadelphous above; pod silky-pilose, 5-6 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, about 10-seeded; seeds 4 mm. broad.
Typb locality: Manzanillo, Tepic. Distribution: Tepic.

Cracca arcuata Rydberg, sp. nov
Cracca toxicaria Standley, Contr. U.S.Nat. Herb.23: 471,473. 1922. NotC.loxicaria Kuntze. 1891.
A shrub, up to 7 m. high; branches angled, short-pubescent with spreading hairs; leaves 1.5-2 dm. long; stipules subulate, deciduous; the short petiole and rachis short-hirsute; leaflets 31-37, linear or lance-linear, acute, 3-4 cm. long, 7-8 mm. wide, silky or in age nearly glabrous above, densely villous beneath; racemes elongate, 1.5-2 dm. long; flowers 2 or 3 at each node; calyx villous with yellowish hairs, the tube 3 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, 3 mm. long; corolla about 1.5 cm. long; banner obovate; wings obliquely oblanceolate; pod about 5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, decidedly arcuate, short-hirsute, 8-10-seeded.
Type collected on Maria Madre, Tres Marias Islands, Tepic, May 1897, E. XV. Nelson 4193 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 345936).
Distribution: Tepic to Oaxaca.